JOB SUMMARY

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.
The last few years has seen an extensive overhaul of security and information management to meet the challenges of corporate and statistics transformation in technology, methods and practice, the Digital Economy Act and organisational risk appetite. The capability is evolving and expanding to address changes in threat and business direction.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Cyber Security Apprenticeship is an opportunity for individuals interested in cyber security to work toward a formal qualification alongside full time employment in Government. The role will involve shadowing, observing, and learning various cyber security related skills and gaining experience within a cyber security function. You will be working across the Triage and Investigation functions to build knowledge & experience within cyber security to enable completion of each module within the Cyber Security Apprenticeship.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS WILL I GET?

Level 3 Cyber Security Apprenticeship.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Interested to learn about Cyber Security.
• Have a real enthusiasm and curiosity to tasks. To be able to deliver to timescales, with a good attention to detail, responding effectively to changing priorities.
• Good interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to interact well with people across the organisation, including those more senior to you.
• Ability to proactively work well as part of a team, taking responsibility for delivering agreed business objectives.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, across a range of tasks, seeking advice and guidance from managers as appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

To apply for this apprenticeship, you need to have either qualifications or relevant experience in this field:
GCSEs in Maths and English at Grade C or above.
or
Relevant experience - learners will be considered for entry based on previous experience.
Standard eligibility criteria for apprenticeships still apply and any specific programme entry criteria listed above.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working towards completing modules within the apprenticeship and completing assessments as required.
• Fulfil all responsibilities to commit to and complete apprenticeship as informed by apprenticeship provider.

Areas covered in apprenticeship will include (but not limited to):

• Principles of Information Governance and Assurance
• Carrying out Information Security Risk Assessment
• Carrying out Information Security Incident Management Activities
• Investigating Information Security Incidents
• Threat Analysis
• IT System Security